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How C Minor Provides a Commonality for Many of Beethoven's Works

Three sonatas make up Opus 10 and mark a move by Beethoven toward new musical territory (Lockwood, 2003). These strongly contrasti...

Gender Roles and Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

Working by Studs Terkel and Babe Secoli

bad day and how her family will state they should not talk to her, but then she laughs, "this is not a policy to bring home your w...

Working Women on Barbados

means suits and high heels, yet their work is paid roughly the same as factory workers. This means that, in order to maintain the ...

Characters from "On Golden Pond" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

This research report examines various characters in each of these works. Both the film and novel are explored and Ivan in Tolstoy'...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Themes of Change and Freedom

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the central theme of Frederick Douglass' Narrative in the Life of F...

Madame Butterfly and Othello, Themes Compared

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...

Controversy and Kudos -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of England's foremost poet and philosopher-critic during the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the grea...

A Review of Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis and Eric Marcus

A 5 page essay illustrating the theme of human diversity. This theme is contrasted to All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by ...

Fate in Romeo and Juliet

progress, the use of word-play reiterates what is fated, and even though we might wish to change the outcome of fate, we begin to ...

The life and work of Charlotte Gilman

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...

Analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In ten pages this paper presents an analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding in a consideration of humankind's evil as a p...

Betrayal in Dante's 'Inferno'

The theme of betrayal as it is presented in Cantos XXXI, XXXII, and XXXIV is examined in terms of theme, characterization, and ima...

Selfishness and Greed in A Tale Of Two Cities

The themes of selfishness and greed come forth in this analysis of a classic piece by Charles Dickens. The focus on literary techn...

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of utopia in each work in terms of freedom and the individual....

Huckleberry Finn and Don Quixote

In four pages this research paper examines each work as it represents the picaresque tradition classification....

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Life and Career of Oliver Wendell Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between Oliver Wendell Holmes' life and works....

Tragic Masterpiece Antigone by Sophocles

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox and Cecilia by Frances Burney

In four pages this paper compares how inheritance is thematically depicted in each of these works....

Society, Characters, and Crick Crack Monkey and Nectar in a Sieve

In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

In six pages this essay examines how the author utilizes Mexican pachuco in his work....

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

Imagined Debate Between Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this paper imagines a debate among this quartet of political theorists are reflected in their literary works....

Order and Chaos in Homer's 'Odyssey' and the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....